bah humbug

Etymology


From +. The words were originally spoken by the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in the novella  (1843) by English author (1812–1870).

Interjection

 * 1) * 1976, Susan George, “Food Aid? … Or Weapon?”, in How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger, Harmondsworth, London; New York, N.Y.:, ISBN 978-0-14-022001-8 ; reprinted Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1989, ISBN 978-0-916672-08-9 , page 164:
 * Only a modern Scrooge could say, "Bah, Humbug," where helping people to get enough to eat is concerned. Well, we are not going to argue that food aid has never filled an empty stomach or saved a dying child—but we will contend, in the case of the United States at least, that it has done so only inadvertently.
 * 1) * 1976, Susan George, “Food Aid? … Or Weapon?”, in How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger, Harmondsworth, London; New York, N.Y.:, ISBN 978-0-14-022001-8 ; reprinted Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1989, ISBN 978-0-916672-08-9 , page 164:
 * Only a modern Scrooge could say, "Bah, Humbug," where helping people to get enough to eat is concerned. Well, we are not going to argue that food aid has never filled an empty stomach or saved a dying child—but we will contend, in the case of the United States at least, that it has done so only inadvertently.

Verb

 * 1) To utter the words "bah humbug"; to dismiss with the words, or sentiment, of the interjection.